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media type="custom" key="13031058" 3/12/12 logged into wiki found interesting video on Plath's life

3/16/12 "And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." = Plath about her writing... = http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/sylvia_plath/quotes I also found a FANTASTIC site on her life AND poems.. we should definitely use this http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/plath/plath.htm 3/23/12 http://www.poemhunter.com/sylvia-plath/biography/ learned a few things about her personal life today. She committed suicide. Her poems probably hinted at this. http://maximilliusscriptor.blogspot.com/2010/03/sylvia-plath-and-racism.html She is also extremely anti-semitic. Her hatred of Jews is shown through a few poems, but mostly in her diaries. 4/20/12 **early Bio:** - Born on October 27, 1932 in Boston Massechussetts. - Otto Plath, her father, was a professor. He married Aurelia Schober, a student of his, in January 1932. Otto taught German and biology. He had an obsession with the study of bees, or apiology. - Otto was a strict father that had a lot of authority in the family. (this explains why she is so upset in the poem 'Daddy' - He died in 1940 from diabetes. - Plath was an extremely good student, she published poems in magazines and newspapers at the age of 11. - She went to Smith college. She went through a deep depression and although she almost killed herself through a drug overdose, she graduated summa cum laude in 1955. **Relationship with Ted Hughes:** - Met at a party, Plath searched for him as soon as she found out that he was there. She found him and recited his poems, and they started dancing and drinking together. Hughes kissed her neck and Plath abruptly bit him on the cheek until he bled. This meeting was extremely intense and dramatic for Plath. She wrote the poem "Pursuit" for Hughes. - Plath actually had a love before Hughes, which she was extremely confused about. Richard Sassoon was her lover, but he asked Plath to not contact him until she chooses what she wants. She went after Sassoon for a very long time, but she could not find him. After receiving a love letter from Hughes, she decides to go to London to be with him. - They were married on June 16 1956 at Bloomsbury. Plath moved into a flat on Eltrisley avenue with Hughes, where, ironically, relatives of relatives of Sassoon lived. - Plath and Hughes made arrangements to move to America in 1957. 4/27/12
 * Sylvia's Education **

Winthrop public school system - elementary school Studied at Cambridge She went to Smith college. She went through a deep depression and although she almost killed herself through a drug overdose, she graduated summa cum laude in 1955.
 * she was published when 8 years old in the Boston Sunday //Herald// (amanda’s bio)
 * graduated in summa cum laude although she tried killing herself

Plath went through the Winthrop Public School system while growing up in Boston. She was first published while she was eight years old in the Boston Sunday Herald. She studied at Smith college, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude although she made an attempt to kill herself. She later went to study at Cambridge. She became a teacher afterwards. EDITED: Plath went through the Winthrop Public School system while growing up in Boston, where she would dazzle her teachers with her superior writing skills. She was first published while she was eight years old in the Boston Sunday Herald. She went to Smith college in 1950, but Plath would suffer from a mental breakdown and try to kill herself. She was taken out of college and was given shock therapy until she recovered. She would go back to Smith college and graduate Summa Cum Laude to win her Fulbright Fellowship to Newnham College, Cambridge. She will continue to write and meet her future husband, Ted Hughes, here. Pictures: http://www.sylviaplath.de/pic/plath.gif http://www.pagepulp.com/wp-content/sylvia_plath.jpg http://s3.amazonaws.com/findagrave/photos/2001/222/plathsylviabio.jpg http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lggmvydvcm1qdogv5o1_500.jpg http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2010/10/11/1286799771998/Ted-Hughes-and-Sylvia-Pla-006.jpg
 * Ted & Sylvia**

4/29/12 LIST OF MAJOR WORKS Poems
 * Daddy
 * Morning Song
 * Totem
 * Cut
 * The Applicant
 * Elm
 * The Colossus
 * Ariel
 * Lady Lazarus
 * The Munich Mannequins
 * Tulips

Short Stories
 * The Bell Jar
 * Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (poems)

Collections Helping write the bio with Amanda at her house. About to input pictures into wiki.
 * Ariel
 * The Colossus and other poems
 * The Collected Poems
 * Letters Home
 * Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (collection)